Tag: New York Times | Apartment Therapy

Private Dinner Parties in Public Outdoor Spaces

The outdoor public spaces of the city are some of the most enchanting in the world. Ever think of hosting a dinner party, say, on the Brooklyn Bridge, in the park, or on your sidewalk out front?......

Dept of Disbelief: Free Amish Fireplace?
aka The Heat Surge Original Roll-N-Glow Electric Fireplace Pitch

If you read the Sunday Times, you saw it. It's there again today and in papers all over the USA. A full page advert for an electric fireplace made by picturesque Amish people that's actually being g...

Sexy Eco Landscaping: Bernard Trainor, Mark Word...
New York Times 8.21.08

Finally. In this great article, we're starting to see where sustainability is evolving with beautiful aesthetic - form and function are starting to work together: "Over the past five years, as clim...

Advantages to Ground Floor Apartment Living

(photo by phodge100 on Flickr) While a bit dated, we still related to this New York Times article from 2004. It was written at the height of the real estate boom but much of the article still applie...

PlantTherapy: 1 Million More Trees for NYC by 2017

The NY Times article "For Urban Tree Planters, Concrete Is the Easy Part" writes about Arthur Simpson, one of the 24 foresters hired this past year to get the city's Million Trees Initiative under way...